Comic-Con: A Scanner Darkly panel

The first panel at this year's Comic-Con was Warner Independent's
discussion and preview of Richard Linklater's adaptation of Philip K.
Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Producer Tommy Pallotta and animators
Sterling Allen, Evan Cagle, Nick Derington, Christopher Jennings, as
well as Philip K. Dick himself. Yes, I know, you're saying, 'Dick is
dead'. A robot recreation of Dick spoke to the audience, and
fielded questions.

They showed a comic-con exclusive trailer that was 2 minutes and 15
seconds with mostly new footage, although Quint from AICN says "the big
beats of the teaser trailer were in there". Hopefully the footage will
be online soon.

They also showed a scene from the movie that was about Robert Downey
Jr.'s character entering the house where Woody, Winona and Keanu are
lounging with a bike. In super fast, hyper speech he talks about how he
got a deal on it. "It's an 18 gear bike" that he got for $50. Woody
points out that there are only 9 gears on the bike and Downey starts
going off about how he was ripped off.

At the panel itself they revealed that the total budget, including
animation and actor's salaries is $8 million, which is incredible for
an animated film if you ask me. The animators are 65-70% done animating
the movie, with 5 teams of 10 animators each attacking the workload on
the film. One of those teams ONLY works on the Scramble suit. They're
hoping to release the film in March of 2006. When asked what the rating
of the movie would be, one of the animators responded "We have boobies
and frontal." This was greeted to much applause.

AICN has pictures of the whole panel including the robotic Philip K.
Dick and four character posters which were on display at the event. Photo credit also goes to AICN.